VPN Use Has Been Outlawed In China

While a VPN is still legal in the United States and there is no reason to think that will change anytime soon, using a VPN in some countries is illegal. A few of the countries that have outlawed the use of a VPN are:

Russia

North Korea

South Korea

China

Turkey

Morocco

India

Cuba

Yeman

Myanmar

Vietnam

Tunisia

Syria

Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia

Pakistan

UAE

Oman

Singapour

Sudan

Bahrain

Thailand

Uzbekistand

Azerbaigan

Libya

Jordan

Tajikistan

Turkministasn

Tunisia

Morocco

There are others as well that have restricted the use of a VPN in their country. Some countries have different reasons for the ban. An example is Oman and Singapour issued the ban due to social values, while China and Russia state the block is for National Security and to prevent access to government blocked sites.

China currently blocks many sites from being accessed within their country, a few of the top sites blocked are china are:

Facebook

Google

Yahoo!

YouTube

Twitter

Instagram

Porn Hub and other pornographic sites

All VPN sites

This block will also be done via the Internet Service Providers. This would mean it would be extremely difficult to become an outlaw for using a VPN in China. Once an ISP detects the use of a VPN, while it cannot see what you are browsing, it could disable your connection until the VPN has been disabled.

Security Risk

This has raised some brows and concern as this is now even more than just being able to access all the great sites across the world, but a security risk as well. This puts all China citizens at risk.

Not being able to encrypt your data gives anyone the ability to dive straight in to your browsing history and personal information.

Legal VPN Countries

There are many countries that still allow their citizens to protect their privacy. I will list a few countries below that still allow VPN usage as of August 2017. I highly recommend if you are in a country that allows the use of one to use IPVanish VPN and protect your privacy and data when online.

Here are a few countries below that allow the use of a VPN:
(Please check your laws even in the countries listed as restrictions or changes could have been made since this post.)

United States

United Kingdom

Sweden

South Africa

Slovakia

France

Germany

Finland

Denmark

Czeck Republic

When possible, no matter where you reside VPN usage is recommended. More people now commit cyber attacks than every before. Also the use of free VPN’s is not recommended and less secure. My top pick is IPVanish VPN that never keeps any log of your history and is totally secure.

The USA Senate and the House has already voted and repealed the FCC internet privacy laws now giving your ISP full authority to view and sell your streaming and browsing history. I recommend using IPVanishVPN to protect your privacy.

IPVanish VPN will also unlock GEO Restrictions from all Kodi add-ons, stop ISP spying and throttling, work on 5 devices at once and keep zero logs of history.